On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:51:04AM -0700, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
igloo:
Hi all,
Proposal: Remove Control.OldException http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3381
We included Control.OldException in base to help people trying to remain compatible with both GHC 6.8 and GHC 6.10. However, my impression is that most (all?) people who wanted compatibility used the extensible-exceptions package instead.
I'd be very wary of this so early. Try building hackage and tell us what breaks when there is no OldException.
I don't have a reasonable way to do an all-of-hackage build at the moment, but I've unpacked the latest version of each package and grepped for "Control.OldException". Of the 1425 packages, 19 mention it: Agda-2.2.4 binary-0.5.0.1 cabalgraph-0.1 chp-1.2.0 darcs-2.2.1 darcs-beta-2.2.98.4 debian-3.35 haddock-2.4.2 HAppS-Server-0.9.3.1 haskeem-0.7.7 HPDF-1.4.2 hsql-postgresql-1.7.3 leksah-0.4.4.1 lscabal-0.1 MissingPy-0.10.3 mueval-0.7.1 plugins-1.4.1 yi-0.6.1 yjftp-0.3.6.2 Thanks Ian